Willingness to bear adversity and beliefs about the curability of advanced cancer in older adults

Older patients with advanced cancer who are 100% certain they will be cured pose unique challenges for clinical decision making, but to the authors’ knowledge, the prevalence and correlates of absolute certainty about curability (ACC) are unknown.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Cancer

• Publication date

  2019-07-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1002/cncr.32074PMID 30920646PMCID PMC6602839
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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